DignityMoves seeks an experienced development, planning, building, or construction professional to lead as Managing Director, Housing Solutions (MDHS) to reimagine innovative ways to build and deliver interim housing that is fast, cost-effective, and scalable. This position will be a fascinating adventure for someone who has felt constrained by the “normal” way of building, hamstrung by red tape and multi-year processes. Please click to view the full position description or to nominate/apply.

DignityMoves is pioneering the widespread adoption of Interim Supportive Housing (ISH) to address California’s unsheltered homelessness crisis. Its innovative model utilizes temporarily vacant land, relocatable prefabricated housing units, and emergency building codes to build communities quickly, cost-effectively, and at scale. By harnessing the power of public-private partnerships and tapping into private capital, land, and creative funding strategies, DignityMoves empowers municipalities to implement ISH and move toward functional zero unsheltered homelessness. The organization’s DignityNOW model challenges cities to ensure enough housing placements for everyone living unsheltered in their communities.

Headquartered in San Francisco, DignityMoves partners with municipal and private stakeholders to rapidly deliver interim housing that also serves as a hub for supportive services. Taking advantage of “Shelter Crisis” declarations – under which municipalities can waive many regulatory barriers – DignityMoves guides local governments in using their broad emergency authority to accelerate housing solutions. When they do, DignityMoves can build communities for $50,000 per unit in just a matter of months. This speed and affordability make the model highly scalable. However, widespread success depends on leaders who can coach local agencies, navigate bureaucracy, and instill the urgency the crisis demands. DignityMoves’ advocacy has also helped shape policy, including co-sponsoring California’s Interim Housing Act (SB 1395), paving the way for broader adoption of interim housing statewide. For more about DignityMoves, read the DignityMoves 2024 Impact Report here.

DignityMoves actively works with cities across the state to create bespoke solutions to street homelessness, with a current focus on the Bay Area, San Diego County, and Los Angeles. After opening the first two groundbreaking projects in San Francisco and Santa Barbara in 2022, elected officials and civic leaders were buzzing about DignityMoves’ work: the simplicity of this practical approach took off like a rocket, accelerating demand across the state. As of August 2025, DignityMoves’ total housing inventory includes 732 beds across 622 units in ten sites statewide. Its active pre-development pipeline includes 696 beds / 599 units in ten additional sites, representing communities in San Luis Obispo, two additional San Jose sites, two sites in Los Angeles, and four other communities.

As the demand is surging, DignityMoves needs the organizational capacity to meet this moment. The organization has a total program budget of over $60M and an operating budget of $5M with a staff of 12. Reporting to the Co-Founder and Chief Real Estate Officer, the MDHS has four direct reports. The complete position description can be found here.

For additional information or to apply, please contact Lisa Grossman & Steven Oppenheim at info[at]moppenheim[dot]com.